Cherise Harris
Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Africana Studies
Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Africana Studies
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Community/Gun Violence • Trauma • Criminal/Juvenile Justice • Systemic Racism • Mental Health Law • Social Justice
Professor of Dance
Dance theory and composition • West African dance and folklore • Somatic practices • Dance history
Assistant Professor of English
Black studies • African American and Caribbean literature and culture • Black sentience • Narrative theory • Affect studies • Gender studies
Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ethics • Moral psychology • Feminist philosophy • Philosophy of law
Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Associate Professor of Education, Department Chair
History of Education, Ideas, and Left Movements in the U.S., 1945- Present • Critical Theories of Education • History of Education as an Academic Field of Study
Assistant Professor of Human Development
Ethnic and Racial Identity • Middle childhood and adolescent development • Social and education policy • Applied social psychology • Intersectionality • Qualitative methods
Associate Professor of Government
American Politics • Race and Ethnic Politics • Public Policy • Constitutional Law • American Political Thought
George and Carol Milne Assistant Professor of Biology
Molecular Neuroscience • Neurobiology • Immunology
Professor of English, Poet in Residence
Creative Writing/Poetry • 20th Century Black Women Writers • The African American Poetic Tradition • Women of Color Feminisms and Intersectionality • American Popular Culture, Media, Language and Poetry
Visiting Associate Professor of Psychoanalytic Anthropology in Human Development
(Auto) Ethnography • Displacement, Loss, Absence, and the search for meaning • Intertextuality and Intermingling • Undocumented-Untitled and (In)difference • Ambivalence, Ambiguity and Paradox • infant, child, adolescent & family work • Transracial Adoption • Relational Ethics
Assistant Professor of History
Modern Africa • Decolonization • Africa and the United States • Youth and Childhood • The Global 1960s